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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

‘They put two contracts out on me’: going undercover with the Pagan Motorcycle Club

‘Every day I woke up, I wondered what sort of shit was going to happen’ … an image from Riding with Evil
Riding with Evil: ‘Every day I woke up, I wondered what sort of shit was going to happen.’ Photograph: Harper Collins

We live, thanks to the coronavirus, in the age of the Zoom interview. But not this time. Ken Croke does not want to be on camera so the words “Ken’s iPhone XR” appear on a black background instead. Nor does he disclose where he lives or where he is speaking from today.

Croke has good reason to be discreet. The 56-year-old is online to talk about his new book, Riding with Evil, which chronicles how he became the first federal agent to go undercover and infiltrate the Pagan Motorcycle Club, a white supremacist gang.

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